This past weekend I indulged in two separate yet entertaining types of activities that brought back a wave of nostalgia.
On Saturday my husband and I took my mother in law to the Monterey Bay aquarium as she had not been there before. The current exhibits of the seahorses are awesome by the way! Joe Bob says check it out. We then took seventeen mile drive over to Carmel and it was this combination that made me nostalgic. I’ve taken both my parents and a wide variety of friends to these spots over the years and it was fun to try and remember who I was with when we saw the tide pools, where that little shop was where they used to sell folk art rugs, where my ten year old nephew (now in his thirties yikes!) swam for hours etc.
Then today we went and saw the new Star Trek movie. I had a lot of trepidation going in as I’m a hardcore trekker from way back. I remember watching it when I was probably no older than six or seven initially. I had some of the lines memorized and to this day one of my college roommates still does. Yes I am and was a geek and used to get pounded regularly for it. Funny how those folks who used to make fun of Star Trek now also remember it fondly.
In any case I didn’t think I was going to enjoy a reimagining of the myth but it turns out for the most part I did. I loved Simon Pegg as Scotty and wished that he had been introduced sooner, Anton Yelchin was fun as Chekov and I think I now have a crush on Karl Urban’s McCoy (Sorry Deforest). I wasn’t so excited with Chris Pine as Kirk nor with the underlying relationship of Spock and Uhura. The movie did lots of little references back to the original and overall it was a fun way to sort of revisit a past favorite. Do go in with a totally open mind and just go with the reimagining, trying to get this movie to mesh with the other treks my cause a headache. Oh, and as I told my friend who actually lives in Iowa just laugh and ignore the fact that they didn’t get it right.
